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FACTS
TO MAKE EVERY INDIAN PROUD
compiled and sent by a proud Indian
Who is the co-founder of Sun Microsystems?
Vinod Khosla
Who is the creator of Pentium chip (needs no introduction as 90% of the today's computers run on it)?
Vinod Dahm
Who is the third richest man on the world?
A.
According to the latest report on Fortune Magazine, it is
AZIM
PREMJI, who is
the CEO of Wipro Industries. The Sultan of Brunei is at 6th position now.
Who is the founder
and creator of Hotmail (Hotmail is world's No.1
web based email program)?
Sabeer
Bhatia
Who is the
president of AT & T-Bell Labs (AT & T-Bell Labs is the creator of program
languages such as C, C++, Unix to name a few)?
Arun Netravalli
Who is the GM of
Hewlett Packard?
Rajiv Gupta
Who is the new MTD
(Microsoft Testing Director) of Windows 2000, responsible to iron out
all initial problems?
Sanjay Tejwrika
Who are the Chief
Executives of CitiBank, Mckensey & Stanchart?
Victor Menezes,
Rajat Gupta, and Rana Talwar.
We Indians are the
wealthiest among all ethnic groups in America, even faring better than the
whites and the natives. There are 3.22 millions of Indians in USA (1.5%
of population).
YET,
38% of doctors in USA
are Indians.
12% scientists in USA
are Indians.
36% of NASA
scientists are Indians.
34% of Microsoft
employees are Indians.
28% of IBM employees
are Indians.
17% of INTEL
scientists are Indians.
13% of XEROX
employees are Indians.
You
may know some of the following facts. These facts were recently published in
a German magazine, which deals with WORLD HISTORY FACTS ABOUT INDIA.
01. India never
invaded any country in her last 1000 years of history.
02. India invented
the Number system. Aryabhatta invented 'zero.'
03. The world's
first University was established in Takshila in 700BC. More than 10,500
students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. The
University of Nalanda built in the 4th century BC was one of the greatest
achievements of ancient India in the field of education.
04. According to
the Forbes magazine, Sanskrit is the most suitable language for computer
software.
05. Ayurveda is the
earliest school of medicine known to humans.
06. Although
western media portray modern images of India as poverty stricken and
underdeveloped through political corruption, India was once the richest
empire on earth.
07. The art of
navigation was born in the river Sindh 5000 years ago. The very word
"Navigation" is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH.
08. The value of pi
was first calculated by Budhayana, and he explained the concept of what is
now known as the Pythagorean Theorem. British scholars have last year (1999)
officially published that Budhayan's works dates to the 6th Century, which
is long before the European mathematicians.
09. Algebra,
trigonometry and calculus came from India. Quadratic equations were by
Sridharacharya in the 11th Century; the largest numbers the Greeks and the
Romans used were 106 whereas Indians used numbers as big as 1053.
10. According to
the Gemmological Institute of America, up until 1896, India was the only
source of diamonds to the world.
11. USA based IEEE
has proved what has been a century-old suspicion amongst academics that the
pioneer of wireless communication was Professor Jagdeesh Bose and not
Marconi.
12. The earliest
reservoir and dam for irrigation was built in Saurashtra.
13. Chess was
invented in India.
14. Sushruta is the
father of surgery. 2600 years ago he and health scientists of his time
conducted surgeries like caesareans, cataract, fractures and urinary stones.
Usage of anaesthesia was well known in ancient India.
15. When many
cultures in the world were only nomadic forest dwellers over 5000 years ago,
Indians established Harappan culture in Sindhu Valley (Indus Valley
Civilisation).
16. The place value
system, the decimal system was developed in India in 100 BC.
Quotes on
India.
We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count,
without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made
Albert Einstein.
India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend and the great grand mother of tradition.
Mark Twain.
If there is one place on the face of earth where all dreams
of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began
the dream of existence, it is India.
French
scholar Romain Rolland.
India conquered
and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send
a single soldier across her border.
Hu Shih.
(Former Chinese
ambassador to USA)
ALL OF
THE ABOVE IS JUST THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG, THE LIST COULD BE ENDLESS. BUT,
if we don't see even a glimpse of that great India in the
India that we see today, it clearly means that we are not working up to our
potential; that includes every religion, race, caste and colours of Indians
and that if we do, we could once again be an ever shining and inspiring
country setting a bright path for rest of the world to follow. We need to
make INDIA a tolerant, secular inspiration for the world.
There is no room for extremists in India